Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster)	Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South by Jarvis C. McInnis (Columbia University Press)	Arrested Mobility: Overcoming the Threat to Black Movement by Charles T. Brown (Island Press)
The Battle for the Black Mind by Karida L. Brown (Legacy Lit)	The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements by Meredith L. Roman (Bloomsbury Academic)	Chief Rondo: Securing Justice for the Murder of George Floyd by Medaria Arrandondo with Jennifer Amie (Diversion Books)
Emotion, Race, and Space in Contemporary African American Literature by Marijana Mikic (Palgrave Macmillan)	Free Black Charlestonians in Debate: The Complete Proceedings of the Clionian Debating Society, 1847–1858 edited by Angela G. Ray (University of South Carolina Press)	Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution by Peniel E. Joseph (Basic Books)
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea by Marcus Rediker (Viking Books)	Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver (The New Press)	The Keloids We Heal: Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature by Sarah Soanirina Ohmer (University of Illinois Press)
Manifesting Violence: White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and the Rhetoric of Replacement by Casey Ryan Kelly and William Joseph Sipe (University of Alabama Press)	Mixed Heritage in the Family: Racial Identity, Spousal Choice, and Childrearing by Carolyn Liebler and Miri Song (Russell Sage Foundation)	My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman by John Conyers III (Amistad)
No Race, No Country: The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright by Deborah Mutnick (University of North Carolina Press)	Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism by Jennifer C. Pan (Verso)	Single Black Mother: Queer Reflections on Marriage and Racial Justice by Anika Maaza Simpson (Oxford University Press)